Her middle school security guard held her captive for 10 years. Now Tanya Kach is revealing how she survived a decade locked upstairs
Tanya Kach’s story had all the makings of a Lifetime movie — and now it is one.
Kach is speaking out about the harrowing ordeal of being held captive for a decade from age 14, after fellow kidnapping survivor, Elizabeth Smart, convinced her to share her story.
“A lot of women have messaged me, reaching out to me and opening up about something that happened in their life because they feel comfortable talking with me because I understand,” the now 42-year-old told The Independent, just days after The Girl Locked Upstairs: The Tanya Kach Story premiered on Lifetime.
The Pennsylvania teen had been struggling at home and at school in the wake of her parents’ tumultuous divorce before she vanished in February 1996.
Months earlier, suburb of McKeesport to avoid the peers who bullied her, she was caught by a school security guard.
